Vegetable Seeds

An excellent squash, weighing on average 1.5-2.3 kg (3.5-5 lbs). Creamy-yellow coloured fruit has a small seed cavity and a bulbous end with solid, smooth skin and deep orange flesh. A large, vigorous growing vine and heavy producer. The already great taste will improve with storage.

Mary Washington Asparagus is a trusted, reliable variety introduced in 1949 that produces vigorous, medium green, mouth-watering spears that are excellent fresh or quite suitable for freezing.

A strong, upright growing fancy French filet bean featuring 14 cm (5.5"") long, straight smooth featured medium green pods. Robust plants easily carry high yields of these beautiful tasting tender pods. Serengeti also boasts great disease resistance!

This vigorous, stocky bush bean is a prolific producer. Fleshy, light yellow pods 12-15 cm (5 to 6″) long are quite tender and generally stringless.

This trusted purple podded variety is a productive and long bearing favourite. A good choice to get a jump on the season when the soil is still on the cool side.

Many people consider the leaves of the Golden Beet superior in flavour to many spinach varieties. Because flesh is yellow there is minimal ""bleeding"" to discolour other ingredients in salads.

The sweet tasting roots are excellent keepers and are perfect for slicing due to their uniform diameter and length. Cylindra cooks well and is best used when young.

Dark red, globe shaped roots have a smooth crown and small taproot. The quick maturity, sweet slightly earthy taste, uniform shape and consistent interior colour make this variety the perfect candidate for canning or freezing.

Is it any wonder that this variety is a gardener's friend - its quick to mature so you can harvest the sweet, deep red, tender roots then re-plant the area with other more heat-loving vegetables.

This garden favourite is native to the Mediterranean but migrated throughout the world to become a major vegetable of choice for home gardeners. Produces heavy crops of large, solid, central heads with numerous medium size lateral heads.

Good flavour and exceptionally heavy yielding. Also known as “Catskill” variety.

This short season variety introduced in 1909, produces solid 2 kg (4.4 lb), round-headed cabbages of superior quality. Heads average 15 cm (6"") in diameter with a short stem and tender white flesh. Absolutely super for sauerkraut!

An early Copenhagen type producing solid, round heads on small compact plants.

Danver’s Half Long is an excellent quality, heavy yielding carrot introduced in the late 1880’s that is great for canning and storing. Achieves good growth in a wide range of soils.

Imperator is a sweet, crisp, flavourful carrot with an eye-catching deep orange colour. Nicely formed roots average 18-20 cm (7-8"") in length, very uniform and quite suitable for bunching. This carrot does best in a deep, open, well worked soil.

This new offering produces very long 25 cm pointed cylindrical roots.  A superb choice for market gardeners and a very high yielding carrot when grown in deep rich soils. Great tasting roots are crisp textured and medium orange in colour.

Consistently cylindrical, smooth skinned and blunt ended, Nantes is a great tasting, tender but crisp, almost coreless carrot…even when the carrots are harvested late in the season!

A Kaleidoscope of colourful carrots. Atomic Red, Bambino, Cosmic Purple, Lunar White and Solar Yellow. Sweet and crunchy, they make a cheery looking group of all purpose carrots.

Uniformly shaped, snow white heads that are thick and solid with tight curds. Good for both early and late season crops.

If you have a short growing season and love the taste of home grown cauliflower, Snow Crown is the variety for you. This cauliflower holds very well in the garden and in longer season areas is perfect for spring and fall crops.

A new and improved popcorn variety suitable for growing in more northerly areas as well as the typical corn growing locales. The cobs are packed with kernels of excellent quality that burst into large, fluffy white flakes when popped.

First introduced in 1902, it is this old favourite that was responsible for changing the public colour preference in sweet corn from white to yellow. A true eight rowed cob with broad, sweet golden kernels on cobs 17.5 cm (7″) long.

Sturdy 2 m (6′) tall plants produce the ultimate in bi-coloured sweet corn. Up to 16 rows of mouth watering, tender, juicy kernels fill the beautifully shaped 18 cm (7″) long ears. This is an excellent variety for home gardeners and commercial growers.

This is our best normal sugary variety for cool soil planting. Short, sturdy plants produce ears that average 18 cm (7 1/2″) long. An excellent variety for freezing

Sturdy plants produce cobs filled with multi-coloured kernels ranging in colour from reds through purples to yellows and white. An early maturing variety!

Seed is quick to sprout, soon forming small stems of lacy deep green leaves that make a delicious addition to salads, sandwiches, omelettes and mixed vegetable dishes.

An Oriental variety that is technically a melon but produces fruit that looks and tastes like cucumber. Fruit are light green, thin, heavily ribbed and often curled.  A top-notch slicer!

Crisp, tasty, not bitter and truly burpless - need you look further for a better slicing cucumber! These cucumbers may be eaten without peeling, just like celery.

Heavy yielding plants are loaded with perfectly formed, deep green fruit with black spines. The thin skin allows for ready absorption of pickling solutions and while fruit can be allowed to reach up to 12.5 cm (5"") in length without sacrificing quality.

English Telegraph (also known as the ‘English Cucumber’) has been around since at least 1885 and produces a straight, slim slicing cucumber. The fruit averages 35 cm (14″) long and has a very mild flavour.

Without a doubt, these cucumbers are the exception to the rule! The fruit is the size and colour of a lemon with mild, crunchy, white flesh, non-bitter skin and a unique sweet taste.

A high yielding variety producing perfectly shaped, uniform, dark green cucumbers 20-22 cm (8-9"") long. Superb for slicing. Highly disease resistant. Resistant to mosaic, scab & more.

This variety, which is also known as Mexican Gherkin, produces large numbers of grape sized fruit with a marbled skin that resemble tiny watermelons. Fruit has the same taste and crunch of a cucumber but with a refreshing burst of sour lemon.

Patio Snacker is a monoecious hybrid perfect for containers, trellis or smaller gardens. Short branching vines produce dark green 4 cm x 20 cm (1.5″ x 8″) fruit with a nice flavour, crunchy texture and non-bitter peel.

Abundant fruits are large and dark purple in colour. An excellent variety to choose for both home gardeners and commercial growers as the fruit remains tender and tart for an extended time.

Bitter Gourd or Bitter Melon Oriental Greens Seeds 2565 Heirloom Vegetable. 75 days. Bitter Gourd is definitely an acquired taste. Heavily warted green skin, thick white flesh and long, slim, 25 cm (10″) fruit.

Dwarf Scotch Kale is an exceptionally hardy shorter variety with a compact growth habit - a good selection for windy sites. The leaves have a white rib and are lightly curled. A handsome looking, robust growing, nutritious plant with a mild taste.

A rather primitive looking kale with strap-like, crinkled blue-green leaves 7.5 cm (3″) wide by 25 cm (10″) long.  Plants can grow to 1 m (39″) in height.

This handsome purple, pre-1860 variety has a white, crisp, mild tasting interior. Flesh has a nutty flavour when eaten raw and a mild cabbage taste when cooked. An excellent companion plant amongst cucumbers.

Flesh is white with a nutty flavour when eaten raw and a mild cabbage taste when cooked. Sow seed every two weeks from April through to early August. Like Purple Vienna Kohlrabi, White Vienna is a pre-1860 variety.

his delicious tasting member of the onion family produces leaves that are a medium green with a nicely elongated stem 20-22.5 cm (8-9″) long and 5-7.5 cm (2-3″) thick.

Prized by gourmet sous-chefs as an ideal mixture for sophisticated salad presentations. Thanks to OSC, you can grow in your own garden and enjoy in your kitchen the same exquisite miniature salad greens served at up-scale hotels and resorts.